Viveca Lindfors' Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Reading Rainbow Viveca Lind… Five Fingers Madame Zapote The Wizard Anthea

Main Movie Roles 1996 - Looking For Richard 1994 - Stargate 1991 - The Linguini Incident 1991 - Zandalee 1990 - The Exorcist III 1985 - The Sure Thing 1984 - Silent Madness 1982 - Creepshow 1981 - The Hand 1973 - The Way We Were 1965 - Brainstorm 1961 - King of Kings 1960 - The Story of Ruth 1957 - The Halliday Brand 1955 - Moonfleet 1950 - This Side of the Law 1950 - Backfire 1950 - Dark City 1948 - Adventures of Don Juan

BIOGRAPHY:

Ms. Lindfors was a Swedish born actress whose stage and screen career in the U.S. and Sweden spanned more than a half century. She was brought to Hollywood in 1946 by Warner Brothers in the hope that she would be a new Greta Garbo or Ingrid Bergman (I). She appeared with Ronald Reagan (I) in her first Hollywood film, Don Siegel's Night Unto Night (1949). Perhaps best known as a stage actress, she returned to Sweden in August 1995 to tour with the play "In Search of Strindberg".


TRIVIA:

• Her father was Major Torsten Lindfors and her mother Karin Dymling.
• Became a naturalized U.S. citizen around 1951.
• Mother of 'Lena Tabori' (qv).
• Mother of 'Kristoffer Tabori' (qv)
• In 1990, while walking to a New York theatre production she was appearing in, Viveca was assaulted and her face slashed. After receiving stitches for the wound, she continued on to the rehearsal.